Members of PARMLIB/IPLPARM in general can have alphanumeric suffixes that include decimal digits 0-9 and letters A-Z. The national characters @, #, and $ are problematical: some members allow them, some do not. It's not easy to tell from Init and Tuning which ones are which. I opened a PMR several years ago when a system refused to IPL with something like IEASYM0@, a naming convention we would use to indicate 'an old version' of a standard name. IBM's response was that PARMLIB naming conventions are left to the component that supports the member.
Unless you know otherwise for certain, it's best not to depend on the nationals at IPL time. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 05/31/2006 09:34 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: LOAD parm question Kevin, I'm pretty sure, Rob meant characters 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,A,B,C,D,E,F, not hex value of those two bytes in the member name. Obviously LOAD%& cannot be used, because it is illegal member name. However LOAD## can be used IMHO (although I naver used so called national characeters in LOADxx). Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS wrote: > Rob, > > 00-ff covers any characters. Are you saying you want to use special symbols > , such as LOAD## and LOAD%& in additional to 00-99 and AA thru ZZ. > > I would say "NO" it not supported... Think of the different keyboards that > may not have some symbols. > > I sure one of the smart guys on the is list can quote a ANSI Standard. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Goings, Rob > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: LOAD parm question > > > Greetings Listers. > > Question regarding the LOAD parameter. > > The suffix of the IODFxx has to be within a valid Hex range of 00-FF > > Does the same restriction apply to the LOAD suffix. Does it have to be 00-FF > or can I use any two characters? > > The IBM manual does not state any restriction, but I thought I'd better > check. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
